“Crimean Tatars are Muslim, and that is inbuilt in our mentality; our customs are built around our religion”, said Marlen Kataky, 44. There are about 400,000 Muslims in Ukraine, with the ...

Crimean Tatars have been forced to become Russian citizens and their freedoms have been curtailed. ... There's "huge pressure on religious communities," Taras Berezovets, founder of Free Crimea, ...

After invading Crimea in March 2014, Russia ordered Crimea's religious groups, which number about 1,500, to register with Moscow under its religion law or lose their legal operating status.

Russia's cabinet of ministers proposed draft bill No. 38726-8, which formally prohibits prisoners convicted of so-called ...

After decades of Soviet authorities burning Islamic literature and shutting down Islamic schools, Crimean Tatars were deported in the hundreds of thousands to Central Asia and Siberia in 1944.

The Tatars, a Turkic ethnic group, ... Crimea's government, who by all appearances was placed in power by Moscow, has promised that there will be no ethnic or religious discrimination in Crimea.

The Memorial Human Rights Center says it has recognized four Crimean Tatars being tried for their alleged association with a banned Islamic group as political prisoners.

A Russian military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced four Crimean Tatars to lengthy prison terms on "terrorism" charges, the human rights group Crimean Solidarity announced on May 31.

BIALYSTOK/BOHONIKI, Poland, Nov 17 (Reuters) - For Tomasz Miskiewicz, the mufti who heads Poland's Muslim community, helping migrants entering the country from Belarus is about humanity, not religion.